[Quickfix-developers] RE: Solaris support for Forte6U2

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I believe that is a good way to go about it.  I would recommend first
duplicating the unit tests for testing the Xerces interface, and then just
write the new code hook, line, sinker.  For the first pass, you can tell
automake to copy parser-specific files to the required filename based on a
switch and/or automake test that checks for each library.  If that's
confusing, I can show you what I mean.  Then I would suggest looking at the
two results and refactoring out an interface, leaving the parser-specific
stuff in separate files, but the bulk of the validator code in one file.
Look at the template method pattern in GoF if you have it.

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John Duncan
Technology Director
Collaborative Development Group
Thoughtworks, Inc
(312) 953-6286


                                                                                                                                 
                      "Chris Custine"                                                                                            
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Sounds good.  I am almost done getting everything to compile with the Sun
Forte compiler, at least right up until the XML parser is needed.  The
compiler changes will obviously be easy, but how do you want the XML parser
integrated into the project?  For example, it looks as if there are some
fairly substantial differences in the code required to add the XercesC Sax
parser in place of libxml and the MS library and I am not sure you will
want
to keep adding pre-processor directives in the existing files because I
don't think there is an even match in syntax between Xerces and the other
libraries.  In order to get fully compiled, I am just creating a new set of
files for the MessageValidator and related classes to see what it takes to
make them work.

I will surely have more questions, but this will get me going for now.
Thanks for your help.
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Chris Custine
Custine Technology Group, Inc.
1085 Meadow View Ln
St. Augustine, FL 32092

Phone:  904.829.6681
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-----Original Message-----
From: JDD...@th... [mailto:JDD...@th...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:56 PM
To: ch...@cu...
Subject: Re: Solaris support for Forte6U2



Hi Chris,

What you're talking about sounds great.  We were trying to decide at the
beginning between libxml and Xerces, and we went with libxml because it's
likely that many linux users are using it.  Xerces support would be useful
and cross-platform to boot.  We can provide testing on Linux and Windows
for those mods, and we can also test them with gcc on Solaris.

We have been interested in other compilers on Unix boxes, but their cost
prohibits us from doing those ports before we need to.  I think that it
would be a big win for QuickFIX if it were supported on Sun's compilers.
If you need help with our tools for this project, don't be afraid to ask.

Thanks for contributing,
John Duncan
Technology Director
Collaborative Development Group
Thoughtworks, Inc
(312) 953-6286



                      Chris Custine
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I have been looking at the QuickFIX project since seeing
the press release from ThroughtWorks earlier today and I am
interested in adding support for Forte 6U2 and Xerces XML
parser on the Solaris 8 platform.  Are you interested in
the modifications to be merged into your project or is
someone already working on these additions?  If you would
like the code let me know and I will send the mods to you.
Initially this is a side project so my contributions will
be slow and limited, but I may be able to get some official
time allocated if we pursue using this tool for some
pending projects.

Either way, I like the looks of this project so good luck!

Chris